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Nov 2021
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Ep 193: Island of Missing Trees by Elif ...

ANNA BAILLIE-KARAS, ANNIE WATERS AND AMANDA HAYES
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Anna and Annie discuss The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak.  Shafak is an award-winning Turkish-British novelist whose previous novel 10 Minutes, 38 Seconds in This Strange World was short-listed for the Booker Prize.  We loved this latest novel set in Cyprus and London and featuring a sassy fig tree.

Coming up: The Magician by Colm Tóibín. 

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